What Is The Legal Left So Afraid Of?
Conn Carroll /
Last Friday, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, University of California at Berkeley law school Associate Dean Goodwin Liu, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was not the first time Liu was before this Senate panel. In 2006 Liu testified against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito claiming Alito’s record was “not the mainstream.” Liu also spoke out against Chief Justice John Roberts nomination in 2005. But now that the Senate was examining his qualifications, Liu offered this spirited defense of his past legal writings:
Whatever I may have written in the books and the articles would have no bearing on my action as a judge.